I Was A Piano Player Before I

I Don't See Any Independent Position That I'm In; It's Rather Inter-dependent.

Paul Robeson Once Said That The Artist Has The Responsibility To Either Help Liberate The Community Or Further Oppress It. And I Think That When Eldridge Cleaver Wrote It Down It Was Interpreted As His, But There's A History Of People Saying Things Of That Nature And Meaning It. And What I Do Is In That Tradition, In That Mode.

Womenfolk Raised Me And I Was Full-grown Before I Knew I Came From A Broken Home

I Was A Better Writer When I Was Teaching. I Was Constantly Going Over The Basics And Constantly Reminding Myself, As I Reminded My Students, What Made A Good Story, A Good Poem.

I Find It Not Just Strange But Almost Ridiculous That People Could Take A Song Like The One I Was Doing And Interpret It Is Corroding Anything. Folks Have The Feeling That Oftentimes If You Don't Talk About Something It Will Go Away.